First of all, I’ve been having a wonderful run of luck with cover albums, songs I didn’t write. I had five pop cover albums and two Christmas albums, and they were all very successful.
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I stay glued to my piano and my work. I don’t look up. I write, I produce, I do the next project, I do my job. I don’t look up, and I try to be kind. I try to be kind to people. That’s what I do.
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First of all, I’ve been having a wonderful run of luck with cover albums, songs I didn’t write. I had five pop cover albums and two Christmas albums, and they were all very successful.
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I stay glued to my piano and my work. I don’t look up. I write, I produce, I do the next project, I do my job. I don’t look up, and I try to be kind. I try to be kind to people. That’s what I do.
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You know, when I did ‘American Idol’ the three times, I tried to tell these kids you have to tell the story of the lyric.
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I didn’t want to be treated like a ‘star.’ I fought it constantly, and I think I was rude.
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The melody seems to have gone to the country. The country music seems to still have melody and interesting lyrics. But pop music, you’ve got to really listen hard to somebody who’s doing a good melody and a good lyric.
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I believe in my writing.
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Touring is a young man’s game, but after 30 years of it, I want to stay home.
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My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.
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Everybody has to find out: who are you? What do you believe in?
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You can’t possibly prepare for what happens to you the day you hit No. 1 and people treat you differently.
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I was the Justin Bieber of the ’70s. Really, I was.
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I think the people who are out there for fame get themselves in a lot of trouble.
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When it comes to me, I just write the most beautiful music I can, I do the best work I can, and then I hand it out there.
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I’ve been up, down, trying to get the feeling again. All around, trying to get the feeling again. The one that makes me shiver, made my knees start to quiver.
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